TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet.
As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.
Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.
Theatrically seeing a movie with a group of people and having a collective experience has an authenticity that you can't get with your big screen television.
If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.
It's a very strange and quite terrifying experience to watch yourself on TV. I never like to do it with other people.
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!
It's the boring things that mean a lot to me. I enjoy taking my sisters to eat. Or sitting watching TV with my family.
The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69.
When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family.
I sometimes found myself more comfortable around my TV family than I did with my own parents and sister.
I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.
This almost never happens, but what is really relaxing is just being in this house all by myself, sitting quietly and watching TV. But I basically never get that chance.
I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.
The future of the television industry is changing at an unstoppable rate, and it is exciting to share my experience and thoughts on how this will change the value of content in the digital space.
I like to go out, but sometimes it's nice to stay cozy at home, watching movies or TV, especially early in the week.
If you ask me what I'd rather be doing, well, I'd rather be home in California, watching TV, polishing my tools and working around the ranch.
Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.
I'm purely most happy on a film or television set. That's where I feel I am home.
